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Radio Production Technical

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is a Tweeter?
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
High frequency sound speaker
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
Recording that overwrites the previous recording

2. What is Mixing?
Muting sounds above peak
Above 20kHz
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.

3. What is SPL
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

4. What does a Sound Wave look like?
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Making the sounds more usable.
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Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word

5. What is a Shock Mount for?
Cycles per second
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air

6. What does a Sound Wave look like?
Low frequency sound speaker
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
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7. What is Recording?
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
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A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave

8. What is Expansion?
Amplitude - Cycle - Frequency - Volume - Molecular displacement
Middle frequency sound speaker
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
Federal Communications Commission

9. What is sound measured in?
Decibels (dB).
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Above 20kHz
Below 20Hz

10. What is Sonic Panorama?
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
High frequency sound speaker
Middle frequency sound speaker

11. What does FCC stand for
Federal Communications Commission
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
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In order to get a new perspective on the project

12. Electromagnetic Spectrum
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
Federal Communications Commission
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)

13. How does a Condenser Mic work?
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.

14. What are the parts of a Sound Wave
Federal Communications Commission
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Amplitude - Cycle - Frequency - Volume - Molecular displacement

15. What is the FCC and what does it do for radio stations.
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired
Low frequency sound speaker
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)

16. When a two speakers are housed in the same box - what is the arrangement?
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Middle frequency sound speaker
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom

17. What is ultrasonic?
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Above 20kHz
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -

18. How does a Condenser Mic work?
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
In order to get a new perspective on the project
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Making the sounds more usable.

19. What is Compression?
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word

20. What is Hertz (Hz)?
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
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Cycles per second
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)

21. What is Amplitude?
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
From the peak to the trough

22. What does FCC stand for
Federal Communications Commission
Above 20kHz
Muting sounds above peak
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.

23. What is Amplification?
High frequency sound speaker
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Making the sounds more usable.
From the peak to the trough

24. What is Mastering?
Middle frequency sound speaker
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques

25. Why should you not listen to anything for a while between editing sessions?
In order to get a new perspective on the project
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
S sounds - sounds that hiss

26. What is Destructive Recording?
Federal Communications Commission
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations

27. What is Destructive Recording?
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

28. What are the Three Basic Functions of a Console?
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations

29. What is our hearing range?
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
S sounds - sounds that hiss

30. C of O's Station ID
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Making the sounds more usable.

31. What is SPL
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques

32. What is Nondestructive Recording?
Federal Communications Commission
Middle frequency sound speaker
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
High frequency sound speaker

33. What is Recording?
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact

34. What is Mastering?
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
High frequency sound speaker
Recording that overwrites the previous recording

35. C of O's Station ID
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Low frequency sound speaker
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact

36. What is frequency?
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
Cycles per second
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough

37. What are the four processes involved in digital recording?
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -

38. What is a Cycle
Cycles per second
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave

39. What is Amplification?
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
Making the sounds more usable.
Decibels (dB).
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired

40. What is Amplitude?
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
From the peak to the trough
Below 20Hz

41. What is ultrasonic?
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Above 20kHz
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume

42. What is sound measured in?
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
High frequency sound speaker
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
Decibels (dB).

43. What is Expansion?
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough

44. What is Gating?
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met
Above 20kHz
From the peak to the trough
Low frequency sound speaker

45. What is Limiting?
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
Muting sounds above peak
From the peak to the trough
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)

46. What is the Midrange?
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Middle frequency sound speaker

47. What are Plosives?
Federal Communications Commission
Below 20Hz
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)

48. What is a Tweeter?
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.
High frequency sound speaker
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
Cycles per second

49. What is a Cycle
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
S sounds - sounds that hiss

50. What is Nondestructive Recording?
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough